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Before homosexualy was formally legislated out of existence Hollywood by the Productn Co — monly referred to as the Hays Co, which tablished mandat for “moral standards” motn pictur and banned pictns of “sexual perversy” — the legendary filmmaker Jam Whale was buildg the foundatn for Amerin genre cema wh films like Frankenste, The Old Dark Hoe, and The Invisible Man. Here was Whale, a gay man, buildg horror his own image and havg astoundg box office succs as some groups were lobbyg Hollywood to censor queerns out of existence.
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This past weekend alone, two new featur jo this exclive cema non: They/Them, Peack’s clever gay nversn mp riff on the formula, and Bodi Bodi Bodi, A24’s Gen Z skewerg horror-edy. It’s a well-documented fact that the gays love a good horror movie—the history of sry cema is rife wh allegori for the LGBTQ experience (sometim tentnal, sometim not). But that’s changed recent years, as a number of films have phed beyond mere lip-service to actually build unique horror narrativ around gay protagonists and them.
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